policymakers' efforts to strengthen bank capitalization …

affected by bank branch deregulation and employment protection occurring over 1972-1993. We find that financial liberalization …

financial conditions in the foreign bank's home country …

identified late, solutions are much more costly. Until recently, Europe has seen only a small number of outright bank failures …, which made the estimation of early warning models for bank supervision very difficult. This paper presents a unique database … of individual bank distress across the European Union from mid-1990s to 2008. Using this data set, we analyze the causes …

associated with a specific bank. Our approach defines the banking system as a portfolio of banks and infers the system …

Bank profits are high in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) compared to other regions. This paper uses a sample of 389 banks in … 41 SSA countries to study the determinants of bank profitability. We find that apart from credit risk, higher returns on … assets are associated with larger bank size, activity diversification, and private ownership. Bank returns are affected by …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between risk governance and bank performance in a … country where disclosure of risk information is virtually voluntary. Design/methodology/approach – Using 210 bank … significant relationship exists between risk governance and banks’ accounting- and market-based performance. Findings – This paper …